Stream Delay getting Progressively Worse (Picarto)

[ArtyCharmy]

Hi! I'm entirely new to this so excuse my being an ignoramus.
I tried streaming for the first time today and OBS seems to be working pretty well. I have OBS streaming Paint Tool SAI and the program works perfectly on my laptop.

After streaming for a couple of hours to my friends on the website Picarto it was very obvious that the delay was getting progressively worse, from one minute to even half an hour and more which is a ridiculous speed to watch at. The video is fairly consistent but I guess the frame pauses often and it never catches back up. I've watched other people on Picarto without any issues.

OBS is on the default settings besides what this video tutorial describes.
Picarto tutorial

My goal is to reduce my lag to a couple of seconds.
I also tried to play audio during my stream but it was pausing frequently, sounded kind of distorted and I think it repeated itself.

I think this is a log file of my last stream.

https://gist.github.com/49684c4321184b8ff8f09d2fc3eb3243

 

[Prancey]

Unfortunately I can't help you, but I can confirm that I'm experiencing the same issue. My co-streamer also has this problem.

We've tried tweaking bitrates, resolution and framerates to no avail.

To me it would seem like Picarto servers play a role here, but I'm just guessing at this point. Will edit here if I get a response from their support team.

 

[Boildown]

@dping Posted in the OBS Classic forum instead of the OBS Studio

17:09:55.093: keyint: 250

17:10:15.045: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Connecting to RTMP URL rtmp://live.us.picarto.tv/golive...
17:10:15.133: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Interface: Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N 100 (802.11, 65 mbps)
17:10:21.205: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Connection to rtmp://live.us.picarto.tv/golive successful
17:10:21.207: ==== Streaming Start ===============================================
20:19:03.074: Output 'simple_stream': stopping
20:19:03.075: Output 'simple_stream': Total encoded frames: 4294880490
20:19:03.075: Output 'simple_stream': Total drawn frames: 339841
20:19:03.075: Output 'simple_stream': Number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 4294967295 (100.0%)
20:19:03.075: Output 'simple_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 1 (0.0%)
20:19:03.075: Output 'simple_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 152851 (0.0%)

This may not solve your problem, but check if Picarto specifies a keyint to use. And use a wired connection instead of wireless. And it says you have 100% skipped frames, which doesn't make sense to me at all... you were getting video through somewhat, right? What do you mean by "stream delay"?